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Despite his assertions that they are 'low use' these items are all clearly brand new and no doubt the proceeds from a robbery on a dealership. I've reported it to the police but won't hold my breath... **charlee123** | eBay

He will be best remembered for his attempt to bring irony to an American audience...

No lead acid battery should be completely discharged. Approx 80% for a car battery and 50% for a deep cycle (lesiure) battery. Carpenter- that's one hell of a shed! More of a barn! I'd buy a couple of strips to test the water- at £7 it's not gonna break the bank. If they're not man enough, buy more. Or buy something else and use the strips over the workbench for extra light. Either way you can't loose. If I get round to it I'll take a photo of mine in the van.

If you itemised every single thing you might carry on a transit, the insurance would be in the tens of thousands. Plenty of people would be 'uninsured' on that day they help their mate move house for a few quid. The insurers look for every angle to bleed you. Has anyone experience of where they've wiggled out paying a claim for this sort of thing? Like the one day in 365 you run a years worth of collected scrap into the yard?

These are very efficient. Once 5m strip turns the inside of a Transit van into day, scale that size up to your shed size? Major benefit is no shadow as the lights are all around. 12v LED STRIP LIGHT 3528 SMD 300 LEDS 5M UK | eBay I used to use a compact fluorescent with a built in inverter that was very good but pricey. I think the LED strips have the edge, no shadow and for the same money as one of those bulbs you would buy 4 strips, that's a lot of light. If you're going to go down the inverter route, I would get a decent battery set up and a small genny to run that would provide more power when required (angle grinding etc) and top up your battery. Running an inverter solely for lighting is wasteful and inefficient when there is plenty of decent 12v lighting on the market. If it's solely light you want, a car battery would power them for a good while, then charge as you drove home. Two strips is 50w, at 12v that's 4.1 amps. A 60AH car battery could run those for 3 hours (using 12-13 AH) and it would be discharged to 80% capacity. That's a safe discharge level for a non lesiure lead acid battery. That would top up no worries as you drove home, or with a few minutes of engine idling. Install a digital volt meter into the system and it's foolproof. How long will you need to run the lights for?

No they weren't. That was the whole point of the graph I posted... Alex has posted a more detailed one since, which puts the whole situation in stark relief.

And all credit to him. However, the crux of the issue is that that is now the exception rather than the norm. 15 years ago Mr and Mrs Average bought their first house together in their twenties. Now this is much rarer. If your nephew is doing well, nobody is slating him. But think how much better he would have done in the housing stakes had he been born 15 years earlier.

No, I mean average wage. http://anmblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c565553ef0133ed0d1a76970b-500wi Slightly out with my figure of 8x but it's still double. Is your nephew: A. A pie key B. A banker or C. Have rich parents/contacts in the planning department? Don't get me wrong, us young uns don't want to live in a mansion right off. We just want to same chances to buy a starter house on an average wage that you lot got. Hell, you can even keep the free uni education.... And the pensions...

I believe I'm correct in saying that the UK almost ran out of trees during the middle ages, such was the amount of timber that was used for charcoal to work metal?

Being born when the ratio of average property price to average wage as 3x, not 8x... With you all the way on this one Alex. Sweet van BTW.

I'm pretty sure anyone in the UK can claim to be selling timber from 'sustainable woodland' as the FC regulates it and ensures replanting. That same cannot be said for some banana republic where the king meets and greets whoever audits these things, plants a few trees for the camera, and next week after he's flown home clearfells another hundred acres of virgin rainforest....

I've run a 24" solid nose bar with normal chain on an 034 which surprised me. It wasn't happy though, and the oiler wasn't keeping up, but it took a surprising amount to bog it. Not something I do except for the occasional single cut or to top a hedge. The 036 is a cracking all rounder. With a 13" bar on a 9-tooth .325 sprocket she flies ringing up small timber, but you have to be agile and willing to bend down a bit 15" is my preferred bar in 3/8, but 16" is much more widely available. She will pull either with an 8 tooth sprocket no problem, and I'd recommend it. I don't understand why people run such bars on things like MS261s, it just seems silly to me. I find 18" a bit sluggish, that's what a 440 is for! Remember you can cut from both sides of the odd bit of timber that is greater than 15 or 16". Big powerhead, small bar, that's the way to do it!

Then join them. Simples

These look good and tick all your boxes: http://www.bullnetsystems.com/en/burglar-alarms/gsm-alarms.html Here is a transcript of an email I sent the guys, might answer some questions you have. "Thank you for your e-mail. 1) I will contact the manufacturer about the external aerial, I am not currently stocking them. 2) The speed and ease of programming the alarms will depend on which system you order. We have both menu based and code based systems, generally the menu based systems are more user friendly. 3) Yes you can pair all of the sensors prior to installation. 4) The panic button will trigger the alarm, so it will scare any intruder and the alarm will also call the numbers. 5) I can confirm that you can put timers on the zones. If you have any further questions please get back to me. Kind regards Peter Greenwood" He seems helpful and the price is right. I will be able to say further in about a week, once it turns up and I have a play with it. I'm replacing a current wired GSM system in order to go wireless- you're doing the right thing getting an alarm. Prevention is better than a possible CCTV conviction leading to a holiday for the scum.

My neighbour has a load handler, and his wife uses it for all the firewood deliveries and really rates it.

At £80 delivered in, one cube of firewood will have a cost the producer £50 in wood. Someone will still be selling it for £60-70/m3 though!

If you email them, they'll probably change the order and send you a PayPal invoice for the difference. Whatever you get, don't hold the safety mechanism back and do your best 'John Wayne sixgun' impression. Flourescent tubes aren't cheap to replace...

Even if they're doing that there's nothing in it. I can still just about buy in timber from local sources at approx £40/ton delivered. Selling at £100 a cube there's no money in it. Bollocks to paying £40 standing!!

Woah, did you get the nailer/stapler or just the nailer? Only a few pounds between them. Staples are more effective at holding closeboard on. If you haven't got the combined model, then I suggest you change the order for the sake of a couple of quid.

This is the cheapest Silverline framing nailer on eBay but doesn't have Silverline in the title so you won't be able to search for it: AIR FRAMING NAILER 90MM 10 - 12 GAUGE - 282400 | eBay HTH

Get all your mates round and get high

Men in sheds keep the world turning! Starters are pretty simple things. I've saved people hundreds over the years by repairing them.

I've just bought a Silverline 50mm brad nailer/stapler for £30. That paid for itself in time saved on the first job (only a few larchlap panels). So I've treated myself to a Silverline 90mm framing nailer for £90. It's a beast! I had a 6l / 1.5HP Wolf compressor knocking around so I dusted it off. Very portable, and gives 15 shots before refill with the brad nailer, and four with the framing nailer, both set to full power. For big jobs, I will take the 50l compressor out of the workshop and leave it on site. I have plenty of air hose, so all in all very pleased I bought them. I'm waiting to see what the 65mm nails run like through the big one, I'm hoping to get away without having to buy the middle size gun!

I'll bet you that the CPS definition of 'reasonable force' differs somewhat from the membership on here when theft of hard earned work tools is concerned. That aside, any amount of force is useless when the scum or their mates will take revenge by burning your yard or your house and family to the ground. We all know who I'm talking about. Hitler would have sorted this problem out by now. The people doing this are of no use to society, and have no morals whatsoever. You think it's bad now, wait till the Roma start arriving. These people have a 100% alien mindset. They believe stealing is an honest days work. 'Prince of Thieves' is a title they aspire to. If the UN turned a blind eye, the Romanian people would wipe this scum out, and for good reason.

Residual value on Stihl is very good if you sell on eBay. As soon as I start to have problems, I try to fix and flog. Smaller kit like the combis unit and MS181, plus blowers are changed every year, or two years at a push if that particular unit has done much less than another. Much easier that way. That 66 sounds like you would be best rid, but the boss almost certainly won't see it that way...Tell him newer saws will have much less vibration and be more economical? However, if it's only used once every few months it's going to be hard to make a case for renewing it. Every time my Polish guy says to me 'mower is ****, is broke', I say to him 'New mower one thousand, you buy?'